A U.S. federal judge granted the final approval of Anthropic’s $1.5-billion settlement over the class action lawsuit authors filed against it for infringing their rights. According to Reuters, while the court ruled that training AI on books is considered fair use under copyright law, it was the fact that Anthropic kept 7 million pirated books in a central library that violated the copyrights of the authors and their publishers. This is reportedly the biggest payout in a copyright case ever, and the first one to settle among the many cases against AI firms being tried today for infringement.
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